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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:26:59AM +0100, NW wrote: > Roland Tarver wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Rhia Knowles > > <rhiadratech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Recent mint CDs come with compiz enabled on compatible hardware as default. > >> So boot up eg mint 7, and spin that cube! > > > > Hmmm - ok - It did not seem to do that when I booted mint 8.1 on my > > year old laptop, however, I will investigate. Thank you Rhia. > > > > Even though I asked the original question (for my friends benefit), > > personally I don't like "lights and clockwork" - I like simplicity and > > speed, ideally the command line - ok, ok, perhaps with a web browser > > thrown into the party. haha! But I do love the fact that linux users > > have the freedom to choose exactly what they want and how they want it > > :-) > > > > Best wishes > > roly > > > > I too feel that KDE has gone rather OTT. Which is the reason that, on my > laptop, I have installed Mint 7 Xfce. And it works very well for me. > > Neil > I'm a fan of XFCE especially on older hardware, although LXDE is a better choice for really old hardware, or maybe FWM2. Can't think of the other lightweight Window Managers out there. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html